Putin dreams of a new attack on Ukraine. However, with Western technology, the Armed Forces of Ukraine can “smear” all Russian attempts to create a powerful group, and then go on a counteroffensive.
About this Channel 24< /strong> said military expert Oleg Zhdanov. He notes that we may not even see the classic formation of a strike group and advance it to resume a large-scale offensive.
According to him, the events that are taking place in the Donetsk direction are the beginning of the second stage of the “battle for Donbass”.
Russian troops will increase their efforts, but their technology fails. The personnel of Russia is already here – in the Donbass, and the invaders will try to break through the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at least in some direction, – Zhdanov believes.
According to the expert, until February 24, upon the arrival of Western samples armamentUAF can simply “smear” all attemptsRussia to create some kind of powerful group.
“Russia simply will not have enough even the flow of human resources that they are now driving to Ukraine. And we will have the opportunity to inflict a fiery defeat with subsequent preparation to a counteroffensive,” says Zhdanov.
Map of battles for January 30 – in which directions Russia is advancing
By the way, Alexander Musienko, head of the Center for Military Legal Research, believes that one of the potential areas where Russia can launch new attacks is the north of the Luhansk and Kharkiv regions.
ISW names the key stages of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
According to analysts, Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine can be divided into three key stages:
- initiatives of the invaders – from February 24 to July 3, 2022 – after the temporary occupation of Lisichanskaya in early July, the offensive of the Russian invaders in a number of directions reached its climax;
- a period of positional warfare – since then, Ukraine has not been able to launch a new counter-offensive. This allowed the war to move into a positional phase. This stage allowed the occupiers to regain the tactical initiative.
< li role="presentation">UAF counteroffensive – from August to the de-occupation of Kherson on November 11. Then the first big counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine began on September 6 in the Kharkiv region;
